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Heading: (Scott, Sir Walter)
Author: Lockhart, John Gibson
Title: The Life of Sir Walter Scott
Place: London and Boston
Publisher: J.B. Millet Co.
Date: [c.1903]
Item # : 167960
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   303
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 460
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Description:
10 volumes. Illustrated with photogravure plates from photographs, paintings, etc.; each with a hand-colored frontispiece, with tissue-guards. 8¾x6, half polished green calf and marbled boards, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; bound by E. Holdoway Publishing Co. with their engraved plate before the limitation leaf. No. 80 of 150 hand-numbered sets. The “Canongate Edition.”
Lockhart (1794-1854), Scottish novelist and biographer, including the author of this multi-volume biography set on his father-in-law, Sir Walter Scott. First volume with rubberstamp from Northwestern Michigan College on the rear pastedown.
Condition:
Spines a bit sunned, small nicks and rubs, some with light scratches to covers; contents fine; very good or better.
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